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Buy It!{Simon & Schuster} When a book is deemed a "good summer read", I tend to avoid it. "Summer reading" often indicates something light and quick…
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Buy It!{Simon & Schuster} When a book is deemed a "good summer read", I tend to avoid it. "Summer reading" often indicates something light and quick…
It makes a lot of sense that Tim Burton would want to make a movie based on Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. In…
"Nothing says 'I love you' like blackmail." The latest by Don Roos begins with a crash, and that's not the only thing that brings to…
"I'm not gonna be exterminated." Sometimes I wish I were Steven Spielberg. He can make a film that steals shamelessly, even shamefully, from his existing movies…
I thought a lot about the fantastic Gregg Araki film Mysterious Skin during writer/actor Martin Moran's challenging, Obie Award-winning solo show The Tricky Part (an…
"This is not a trend." Celebrity photog David LaChapelle's images are famous for their saturated colors and bubblegum expression of pop culture, and so one would…
Coming strong off of awards at Sundance and Cannes, Miranda July's debut doesn't dissapoint, but it was hard to reign in my enthusiasm when the…
It's blockbuster season, when my expectations are categorically lowered by all the movies with explosions here! there! EVERYWHERE! Sometimes this leads to overrating anything that…
Buy It!{Pleasure Boat Studio} A couple of weeks ago I sat down at an Upper West Side restaurant for a wet lunch with an old…
Look out -- here comes SIFF! And even though it's long been considered America's largest film festival, the beast just keeps on growing. Running a…